TOEFL Writing feedback, scored against the ETS rubric

Upload your response — Integrated Writing or Writing for an Academic Discussion — with the ETS scoring rubric. Mark scores it against the criteria examiners use, quotes your strongest and weakest lines, and shows the next step, so every practice response climbs the 0–30 scale.

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TOEFL Writing is scored on published 0–5 rubrics — exactly the criterion-referenced marking Mark was built for.

One thing before we start: I never write a word for you. I mark your draft against your rubric — like a teacher's first pass — so youdo the improving. Check your school's policy on AI feedback, and acknowledge your use of it where required.

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How it works

Add your rubric

Upload or paste the criteria your work will actually be marked against — e.g. the ETS rubric for the Academic Discussion or Integrated Writing task.

Upload your draft

Drop in the PDF (or paste the text). Mark reads it against every criterion and scores it, quoting the exact lines that earned the marks.

Improve and re-mark

Fix what he flagged, run it again, and watch the mark move. That loop is how essays climb to the top grades.

New — chat with Mark about your essay

Not sure why you lost marks? Just ask him.

Every marked essay now has a chat. Ask Mark why a criterion landed where it did, what “more analysis” actually means, or where to start on your re-draft — and he'll talk it through with you, pointing to the exact lines in your essay.

He'll never write it for you. He asks the questions a good teacher would, so the improving stays yours.

See it before your marker does

Mark your draft, fix what he flags, watch the mark climb.

Mark scores your draft against your rubric and quotes the exact line behind every mark. You fix the two things holding it back, run it again — and the number moves. That loop is the whole game.

Marked against your rubric. Your criteria, not a generic template.
Evidence for every score. The exact line that earned it — or cost you the mark.
Revise and re-mark. Improve the draft, run it again, and see the mark climb.

Draft 2 · +3 marks

Fix these two lines and this is a 5.

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Your essay

“How did railways change everyday life in Victorian Britain?”

Your rubric · 4 criteria

Mark is reading your draft…

842 words

The line Mark quoted

“The railways did not simply move people faster — they reshaped the ordinary rhythm of the day, standardising the clocks between towns and turning a distant city into somewhere you could visit and be home from before dark. Bradshaw's timetable soon sat in every household.”

Analysis & argument

Builds a reasoned, evidenced case

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NOW SITTING AT 4 / 5here's the top band

You name the cause — now push it. Add one sentence on the consequence you hint at, and this criterion tips into the top band.

Draft 1

14 / 20

Draft 2

17 / 20

Both writing tasks, the way ETS scores them

The TOEFL iBT Writing section has two tasks — Integrated Writing (summarise how a reading and lecture relate) and Writing for an Academic Discussion (state and support your view in an online class discussion). Each is scored 0–5 on the relevance and development of ideas, range of language, and accuracy, then scaled to the 0–30 section score. Mark scores each against those criteria with quoted evidence.

Academic Discussion replaced the old essay

Since 2023 the standalone independent essay is gone — the Academic Discussion task asks for a well-developed, relevant contribution in about ten minutes. Practising it against the rubric is how you learn to hit 'clearly expressed, well-supported, almost no errors' under time pressure.

Feedback, never the writing itself

Mark marks what you wrote — he never writes it for you. On a language test that's the whole point: you build the skill, he shows you where the score is won or lost.

Start free. Most students go for the plan.

Start with 2 free marks — enough to mark a draft, improve it, and mark it again. Then keep going for less than the price of one human-marked essay.

Your next draft could be a grade higher.

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